Sosnowiec
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About
Sosnowiec is an industrial city county in the Dąbrowa Basin of southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, which is also part of the Metropolis GZM municipal association. Located in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, Sosnowiec is one of the cities of the Katowice urban area, which is a conurbation with a total population of 2.7 million people; as well as the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5.3 million people. The population of the city is 189,178 as of December 2022.
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The next week in Sosnowiec
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
15° / 11°
6.4 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Drizzle
11° / 9°
8.9 mm
Sun
Rain
12° / 9°
8.0 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Rain
11° / 7°
11.9 mm
UV High
Tue
Drizzle
16° / 9°
0.6 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
20° / 7°
0.6 mm
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
30° / -3°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.4h
04:57 – 20:21local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Sosnowiec
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport (KTW) at 20 km.
Getting around Sosnowiec
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
FlixBus-euNeckar-DonauPKP ICFlixBus-deFlixBus-deFlixBus-deSBBPolRegioOEBB Personenverkehr AG KundenserviceTransportGZMB MetroŽelezničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s.Flixbus Polska sp.o.o
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
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